Constant Dinsmore

Constant Dinsmore (22 May 1742-) was a Colonel of the Continental Army who commanded a regiment of Massachusetts dragoons in the army of General Nathanael Greene during the American Revolutionary War.

Biography
Constant Dinsmore was born on 22 May 1742 in Roxbury, Massachusetts, and he volunteered in the Massachusetts militia during the French and Indian War, having some experience along the frontier. Dinsmore was commissioned as a colonel in the Continental Army in 1775 at the start of the American Revolutionary War, leading a regiment of dragoons. In July 1775, Dinsmore led the dragoon regiment at the battle of Albany, where he drew a regiment of British regulars to the rear of the fort by riding around the fort, allowing for the American militia to storm the front of the fort. When the regulars returned to the front of the fort, Dinsmore led his dimsounted dragoons over the rear wall of the fort, scaling the wall and leading his dragoons in the capture of the center of Albany. Dinsmore's role in the victory made him a hero, and he emerged as Nathanael Greene's best cavalry commander.